Spectral readings : towards a Gothic geography /
"As we reach the end of yet another century, and interest in the Gothic once again grows, it begins to appear as though the Gothic has something quite specifically to do with the turns of centuries, that, as David Punter writes in the introduction to this collection, "the very attempt to t...
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Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] : New York :
Macmillan ; St. Martin's Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: of apparitions / David Punter
- Pt. I. Theory: regions of the Gothic. 1. The Gothic production of the unconscious / Fred Botting. 2. Ceremonial Gothic / David Punter. 3. The nurture of the Gothic, or, how can a text be both popular and subversive? / William Veeder
- Pt. II. Heartlands: the British nineteenth century. 4. Lost cities: London's apocalypse / Alexandra Warwick. 5. Hell is a city: symbolic systems and epistemological scepticism in The City of Dreadful Night / David Seed. 6. 'A pestilence which walketh in darkness': diagnosing the Victorian vampire / Robert Mighall
- Pt. III. America: states of instability. 7. American Gothic landscapes: the New World to Vietnam / Jeannette Idiart and Jennifer Schulz. 8. Gothic numbers in the new republic: The Federalist No. 10 and its spectral factions / Helen F. Thompson. 9. Spectres of abjection: the queer subject of James's 'The Jolly Corner' / Eric Savoy
- Pt. IV. Europe: dimensions of the body.
- 10. The Gothic and the 'Otherings' of ascendant culture: the original Phantom of the Opera / Jerrold E. Hogle. 11. Heiner Muller's Medea: towards a paradigm for the contemporary Gothic anatomy / Barnard Turner
- Pt. V. Contemporary (re)versions. 12. Deaths in Venice: Daphne du Maurier's 'Don't Look Now' / Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik. 13. Dr McGrath's disease: radical pathology in Patrick McGrath's neo-Gothicism / Christine Ferguson.